In the Gallery there are also tombstones,
sarcophagi and various fragments

It is possible to visit the gallery only on
request

The Vatican Museums have a Department
for the epigraphic collection which received great impetus since 1978,
thanks to the newly appointed Director of the Vatican Museums Carlo
Pietrangeli, also an expert scholar of epigraphy

The scientific expertise of the Department
for the epigraphic collection extends to all the epigraphic rich heritage
of over 15,000 inscriptions, mostly on stone in Latin, Greek and Hebrew,
collected and preserved by the Holy See since the seventeenth century until
today

This rich heritage has been given to the
Vatican Museums, and distributed in part on the premises, and in part in the
basilicas of St. Paul Outside the Walls, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, and
in extra-territorial buildings: Villa Giorgina in Via Po headquarters of the
Apostolic Nuncio (Vatican Embassy) in Italy, Chancellery Palace, Palace of the
Propaganda Fide, Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo

At the end of the
gallery behind the gate “Perspective” 1814 by Angelo
Toselli with an optical illusion of a painted loggia